Guidance
Business regulation: guidance and tools
Resources for businesses.
General
- Border controls for non-food products
- Placing certain products on the Northern Ireland market
- OPSS coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance for business and local authorities
Product safety
- Product safety advice for businesses
- Product safety for businesses: A to Z of industry guidance
- Product safety: non-disclosure clauses in compensation settlement agreements
- Business notifications of unsafe and noncompliant products
Weights and measures
- Weights and measures: business guidance
- Weights and measures: legal metrology
- Approved manufacturers: conformity assessement
- Applying a crown symbol to pint glasses
- International legal metrology
Conformity assessment bodies (CABs)
Primary Authority
Enforcement services
Guidance on regulations enforced by the Office for Product Safety and Standards:
- Alternative fuel labelling
- Alternative fuels infrastructure
- Batteries and waste batteries
- Construction products
- Consumer connectable product security
- Eco-design of energy consuming products
- Electric vehicle smart charge points
- End-of-life vehicles
- Energy information
- Heat networks
- Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit sharing (ABS)
- Noise emissions from outdoor equipment
- Public charge points
- Restriction of hazardous substances (RoHS)
- Timber and FLEGT licences
- Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)
Gas and electricity meters
Accreditation, conformity assessment, standardisation and the UK’s National Quality Infrastructure
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Published 17 April 2019
Last updated 5 August 2025
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